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Written by James M. Tate / 7/22/2025 / No comments / body count , bully , charles martin smith , doug savant , eighties , exploitation , gene simmons , heavy metal , horror , lisa orgolini , marc price , ozzy osbourne , revenge , slasher

OZZY OSBOURNE CRASHES 'TRICK OR TREAT' STARRING MARC PRICE

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYF7PNr8lD79dLlod4-HYAE3ihvNQtGhlv8P0F6t1JeFueC-Y372q-yGLZOdS0SZ_sokR-HoSsAyFq59pEHK1-anlrFW3u05YxEsO8EgujGB96RZLnRANCVLSsbKctaX7EqPcf76_1pTxo0r-AW71C6sT0yDcaT1Z5yjgtgM5HJgihGroRG1pTRvuhGaqS/s1628/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-22%20at%201.16.21%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYF7PNr8lD79dLlod4-HYAE3ihvNQtGhlv8P0F6t1JeFueC-Y372q-yGLZOdS0SZ_sokR-HoSsAyFq59pEHK1-anlrFW3u05YxEsO8EgujGB96RZLnRANCVLSsbKctaX7EqPcf76_1pTxo0r-AW71C6sT0yDcaT1Z5yjgtgM5HJgihGroRG1pTRvuhGaqS/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-22%20at%201.16.21%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TRICK OR TREAT Year: 1986 Rating: ** 1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Heavy Metal was invented outright by Black Sabbath, a band named after a horror film, and the two are inseparable, since metal is to music what horror is to cinema... so it's a kind of double-whammy irony that Ozzy Osbourne would play a preacher preaching against devil-culture back-masked music in the 1980's horror-exploitation TRICK OR TRICK...<br><br>Which is really yet another bully sub-genre entry, going all the way back to REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE and more recent, THE KARATE KID... the picked-on boy just happens to be partnered with the most gorgeous girl in school, making Lisa Orgolini another Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Shue, and one of the film's many problems...</p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

body count, bully, charles martin smith, doug savant, eighties, exploitation, gene simmons, heavy metal, horror, lisa orgolini, marc price, ozzy osbourne, revenge, slasher

OZZY OSBOURNE CRASHES 'TRICK OR TREAT' STARRING MARC PRICE

Title: TRICK OR TREAT Year: 1986 Rating: ** 1/2 Heavy Metal was invented outright by Black Sabbath, a band named after a horror film, and th...

CAROL LYNLEY, GIG YOUNG & OLIVER REED IN 'THE SHUTTERED ROOM'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9EMgCXboxY58-vdVsKrShprjoJlD0duReNMb1vD0ipBmPYPokso-hgWRbxm2Vi3pXBs1_O6KNXwTPdLMhSPG-grHBSofvYdkX6Vddt_HqcQpW8Rq7S2GiNQTh16XN58cCoaZ5GfFud09n6J8SY9nW-G2ljtk7_ISzMcX9tVpBWEmt0_d-Urubj2r8iw/s1759/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="1759" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9EMgCXboxY58-vdVsKrShprjoJlD0duReNMb1vD0ipBmPYPokso-hgWRbxm2Vi3pXBs1_O6KNXwTPdLMhSPG-grHBSofvYdkX6Vddt_HqcQpW8Rq7S2GiNQTh16XN58cCoaZ5GfFud09n6J8SY9nW-G2ljtk7_ISzMcX9tVpBWEmt0_d-Urubj2r8iw/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SHUTTERED ROOM Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A near clone of Sam Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS only five years earlier, during the psychedelic era, which is only apparent from the bare-bone jazz soundtrack orchestrating a married couple consisting of a beautiful blonde wife with an ordinary, unassuming husband returning to her small New England-based island home (yet obviously shot in the beautifully rustic exterior of England), part of an eerie Gothic mill that's its very own living/breathing character...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Making the inevitable climax of who's hiding within the titular SHUTTERED ROOM not that important a surprise-twist having been teased during a surreal, horror-trope prologue by mostly TV-director David Greene...  </p><p><span></span></p>

body count, british, bully, carol lynley, david greene, drama, gig young, gothic, horror, jazz score, oliver reed, rural, sixties, thriller

CAROL LYNLEY, GIG YOUNG & OLIVER REED IN 'THE SHUTTERED ROOM'

Title: THE SHUTTERED ROOM Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 A near clone of Sam Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS only five years earlier, during the psych...

JOHN CARPENTER DIRECTS STEPHEN KING'S KILLER CAR 'CHRISTINE'

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Well Kelly Preston's actually the hottest but that's an opinion, and as head cheerleader, football hero Stockwell has her in the bag yet still tries for/strikes out with Leigh before a cool Carpenter glide-cam sports scene where Dennis, running for a long bomb pass, sees Arnie kissing the tall beauty, leaning on an old, recently purchased Chevy he seemed possessed by from the moment he laid eyes on this titular 1950's vehicle, and all to Dennis's distrust and chagrin. <br>

alexandra paul, body count, bully, christine belford, harry dean stanton, horror, john carpenter, john stockwell, keith gordon, kelly preston, killer car, stephen king, teen

JOHN CARPENTER DIRECTS STEPHEN KING'S KILLER CAR 'CHRISTINE'

Title: Christine YEAR: 1983 Rates: **** John Carpenter's most sparse and subtle horror film, and based on Stephen King's multi-pers...

SEAN S. CUNNINGHAM'S 'THE NEW KIDS' WITH LORI LOUGHLIN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lori Loughlin & Shannon Presby are The New Kids YEAR: 1985</u></td></tr>
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Sean S. Cunningham's THE NEW KIDS is a different kind of high school bully movie, especially as the two picked-on title characters, a brother and sister, effectively fight back early on...<br>
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Sister elbows one guy in the gut and turns down two others flat as brother sneaks into group leader James Spader's house, knife in hand, mounting the rich blond bastard in his (Spader's) underwear...<br>
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That's not the only unintentionally homoerotic scene. Another bully, standing next to brother at the high school boy's room urinals, turns and, scooting extremely close, crosses streams: marking territory where hundreds piss every day... A rather odd, random choice for a supposed campus tough guy to make a point, but these kids (and the whole town) beats its own extremely bizarre drum throughout...<br>

bully, drama, eighties, eric stoltz, high school, james spader, john philbin, lori loughlin, paige price, sean s. cunningham, teen, tom atkins

SEAN S. CUNNINGHAM'S 'THE NEW KIDS' WITH LORI LOUGHLIN

Lori Loughlin & Shannon Presby are The New Kids YEAR: 1985 Sean S. Cunningham's THE NEW KIDS is a different kind of high school ...

BEFORE BULLYING WAS A CRIME THERE WAS 'MY BODYGUARD'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Matt Dillon & future Flashdance Jennifer Beals YEAR: 1980</u></td></tr>
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A classy teenage high school bully movie opening with what sounds like a classical music piece and a young kid riding a ten-speed bike through grainy Chicago...<br>
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Enter Chris Makepeace, also picked-on then befriended in the previous year's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/03/kristine-debell-meatballs.html">MEATBALLS</a>, a fantastic little actor when he was little. But another semi-newcomer, Matt Dillon, steals the show as Moody, the high school's kingpin despite his being what seems like a sophomore.. anyhow, they ain't seniors: The only "kid" who looks like an adult and/or college student is future <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/02/4FMj.html">FULL METAL JACKET</a> stud Adam Baldwin as Ricky Linderman and, like every town has a haunted house, every school has a kid with a violent yet mysterious background. The plot of MY BODYGUARD is all in the title — alas, the corniest scenes occur in the middle as Makepeace's Clifford Peache... whose father runs a Hotel despite his mom/Cliff's grandma, Ruth Gordon, flirting with any and all male guests/residents... bonds with and rides a motorcycle with Ricky in a prolonged "feel-good" sequence of campy After School Special fare...<br>
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adam baldwin, bully, chris makepeace, eighties, high school, jennifer beals, martin mull, matt dillon, ruth gordon, teen